Join us for the "Through a Screen Darkly" release party.

WHAT?It’s time to celebrate! Come and share one of the most exciting evenings of my life… the Through a Screen Darkly book release party.

WHAT HAPPENS?I’ll be reading an excerpt from the book and telling the rather bizarre story of how this all came about. Then, there’ll be a Q&A time, and a lot of conversation about great films. And I may even sign a copy or two, if I can manage to sit still.

WHAT ELSE?Wine, h’ors d’ouvres, friends, family, and the generous and delightful John and Sharon Connell, who own the bookstore.

Jeffrey Overstreet has two passions: writing fiction, and celebrating art — music, cinema, photography, literature — through writing and teaching. He is the author of a “memoir of dangerous moviegoing” — Through a Screen Darkly. And his four-novel fantasy series, The Auralia Thread, which begins with Auralia's Colors, was published by Random House. He speaks at universities and conferences around the world about understanding art through eyes of faith. He is earning his MFA in Creative Writing at Seattle Pacific University, where he has worked for 11 years as an editor, writer, and communications project manager. His work has been recognized in The New Yorker, TIME, The Seattle Times, IMAGE, Ravi Zacharias International — and Christianity Today, where he served as a film journalist for more than a decade. He recently began a weekly column called "Listening Closer" for Christ and Pop Culture.

La Conner! That’s twenty minutes from me! I suppose I have no excuse but to show up!

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Hey, I’ve been there, at your recommendation. And the folks that I took with me bought something there and gave it to me for Christmas.

While we were there I noticed the background music – Jeff Johnson. I was a big fan of his in the late 80′s. “Icons” is amazing. I inquired and the owners said they host events with him from time to time.

Sorry to miss your party. It’s a long way from Ottawa. But my wife did preorder the book for me. It was a ridiculously good Christmas. I got Snow Angels too.

Jeffrey Overstreet

"Jeffrey is ... one of my favorite film critics. He writes with great lucidity and compassion about all sorts of movies, from all sorts of angles, but what I value most about his work is the theological-moral perspective he takes on things. He’s not a dogmatic scold, sifting through popular art looking for work that fits a rigid world view; he’s more interested in Looking Closer ... to discover what, if anything, the work is saying."

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Through a Screen Darkly

Jeffrey Overstreet's Through a Screen Darkly is a memoir of "dangerous moviegoing," which has become a popular university textbook on film, faith, and cultural engagement, and which earned praise from readers like Eugene Peterson, Gregory Wolfe, Scott Derrickson, Darren Aronofsky, and Dick Staub. Publisher's Weekly awarded it a "Starred Review."